She is the only surviving daughter of King Mahendra; her older sisters Princess Shanti and Princess Sharada were murdered during the Nepalese royal massacre along with King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev and his family.
In 1970, she married Kumar Mohan Bahadur Shahi, a descendant of the ruling families of Rukumkot, Jumla and Jajarkot.
On June 1, 2001, ten members of the Nepalese royal family were murdered, reportedly by the Crown Prince Dipendra.
The wounded king wanted to pick up the weapon that the Crown Prince had left behind and shoot his own son, in an attempt to stop the massacre, but the king was stopped by Princess Shova.
[1] The massacre resulted in the deaths of ten royals (including the Crown Prince, who committed suicide).